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Francis Bacon: Human Presence
Paperback
Publisher Price: $40.00
ISBN13: 9781855145641
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 2.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.90 Depth: 11.30
Language: English
The paperback edition of the landmark volume dedicated to Bacon's psychologically trenchant portraiture
Featuring works from the 1950s onward, this book explores the genre-defying portraiture of Irish British artist Francis Bacon (1909-92). Now available in an accessible paperback format, Human Presence is the first volume in over 20 years dedicated to this facet of Bacon's practice. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists to large-scale paintings memorializing lost lovers, these selected works showcase Bacon's life story. In addition to the artist's self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and his lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer.
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